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NRDC: “We need to quit rewarding an industry that keeps us addicted to their product.”

WASHINGTON - The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a proposal to repeal billions in oil industry tax incentives funded by the American people.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), would re-direct those taxpayer dollars to promote the development of renewable energy sources, which will reduce our oil dependency and help lower our gas bills. The oil industry currently receives about $4 billion in tax breaks.

Following is a statement from Natural Resources Defense Council Executive Director Peter Lehner:

“We’ve been giving tax breaks to the oil industry for decades, and what have we gotten in return? Gas prices that keep going up and an oil industry monopoly on our transportation system.

“We need to quit rewarding an industry that keeps us addicted to their product. We need to quit letting Big Oil play us for fools. Instead, let’s improve and increase our choices for energy and transportation, and promote solutions that don’t pollute our water and air or sicken our children.

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Because so much winning, another good ole bigot - with an actual bully pulpit - has crawled out of his cave to call for the Ku Klux Klan "to night ride again" and hang Democrats, "Republican Democrats" and "socialist-communists" with "hemp ropes to clean out D.C." The newspaper of one Goodloe Sutton has evidently long been "a cesspool of indefensible bilge." Hence, when asked about the propriety of his call, this defense of the Klan: "Well, they didn't kill but a few people." Thanks Trump.

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